1. Look for a two-column label similar to this one in the picture, into your shoes. It can be a loose pretty paper label attached to the shoe or it can be a sticker into the shoes, sometimes is hard to find it. If you do not find the label, well, that it’s not good! Normally good quality shoes have a really visible and pretty label on paper.

2. Left column: On this column you can find the three parts the shoe is made of:

Upper: the external part of the shoe, the one you can see.

Lining and Sock: the inside part.

Outer Sole or outsole: The bottom of the shoe, the sole.

3. Right column: shows the materials used in each part of the shoe.

Leather: Tanning animal skin. There are many types and qualities of leather.

Coated Leather: Coated Leather with many types of products to give a particular appearance.

Textile: textile materials.

Other Materials: It can be Rubber, PVC, Rubber Compounds, Crepe,…

With these little details we can have an idea of what kind of shoes we are wearing.